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An unmanned Russian cargo ship has docked successfully at the International Space Station, where it was anxiously awaited by the US-Russian crew after the successive failures of two previous supply missions. The Progress M-28M ship, which is carrying 2.5 metric tons of fuel, oxygen, water, food, and other supplies, was launched into orbit on Friday from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan. Russian Mission Control said it docked successfully today in the automated mode at the orbiting space station.

The previous Progress launch in April had ended in failure and a week ago a US supply mission failed when SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket broke apart shortly after liftoff. The mishaps were preceded by last October's launch pad failure of Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket, also carrying station cargo for NASA. The space station, however, wasn't exactly starving: The three astronauts aboard had enough supplies to last through October even before this morning's shipment arrived, notes Space.com. Three more astronauts are set to join them later this month; a Japanese supply ship is set to take off in August.

Looks like we need a quantum leap in science and physics to make any real progress. Not likely to happen as the current crop of physicists are just as stuck in granite as any dark ages priest. I find it amusing to think that in 400 years, we will be considered in the dark ages ruled by narrow minded, priestly physicists that burned the heretics.

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Jul 6, 2015 12:41 AM CDT

Finally the porn arrived.

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Jul 5, 2015 11:41 AM CDT

We want to abandon our support of it. Even the nasholes want to give up on it so they can put all of their eggs in the Mars projects. But the CIA is affraid that if we do give up on it and abandon our part, Russia has two options. First is to convert it into a space based nuclear command center with the possibility of space based weapons. They gained necessary experience with this in the Almaz program. Second is to sell the whole thing to China and they do the same with it.